The man in gray robe looked at Li Ye and smiled very much, and said: "I think you have a good attitude. Maybe in a few years you will be able to practice excellent Buddhism in Prajna Temple. Since you and I met in the wilderness , it means that you and I are destined, so I’ll treat you to a drink of the wine I brewed myself.”
After saying that, he drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, untied the wine gourd hanging from his waist with his left hand, stretched out his right hand to remove the wine cork, and poured wine into their teacups.
For a moment, the space of the inn exuded a strong aroma of wine.
The man in gray robe reached out to pick up the tea cup, put it under his nose, took a sniff, and said lightly: "This wine can only be found in heaven. It is rare to drink it more than once in the world. Come and try my wine."
Li Ye looked at him in surprise, smiled sheepishly, and said softly: "Senior...I don't have the ability to drink. In short, I will get drunk after two drinks, and I will be in front of Mr. Discourteous."
When the man in gray robe heard this, he laughed loudly and said: "How many times in life can you get drunk, and you have to drink all the wine you have in the cup!"
When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't refuse anymore, so he had to pick up the wine glass and said to the man in gray robe: "In this case, I would rather obey my order to be respectful. Thank you, old gentleman, for the wine."
The man in gray robe drank all the wine in his hand, and Li Ye also held the cup and drank the wine in one gulp...
"Okay, okay! Let me tell you the origin of this wine again. I brewed it accidentally a few years ago. I remember it was the Jingzhe that day and the weather was slightly cool... A good friend of mine who has been with me for many years agreed to come that day. She wanted to see me, but she didn’t come that day.”
"Although I like her very much, I have never told her because I am afraid that I will lose her if I tell her... I am jealous of those people around her who have been pursuing her, although I also want to know that she is liked What does it feel like, but I kept putting it off for many years...until the Jingzhe that year, she didn't come to see me again...I always thought we would be together, because I I feel like she likes me..."
Hearing this, Li Ye suddenly remembered what Nalan Yu said to him in the backyard of Youjian Inn, and couldn't help but froze as he thought about it.
"She never said she likes me, but I know there are some things I don't have to say,... I just want her to say one thing, but she is always willing to say it,... I am too confident I thought she would definitely marry me..."
The man in gray robe became more and more excited as he spoke.
Li Ye's eyes suddenly flashed with light, and he suddenly thought of the young lady on Phoenix Mountain.
"That day I was drinking and mixing new wine, and I was crying while drinking...for her, and for myself...I don't know why I did it, but at that moment, I couldn't control myself, When the wine was brewing, the tears on my face slowly dried up...I wonder if the woman I love the most will shed tears for me."
Li Ye blurted out, "Definitely!"
The man in gray robe quietly glanced at the boy opposite him. He didn't expect that Li Ye would answer him so definitely. He picked up the wine gourd and poured wine into their glasses.
"Many years have passed... I really want to forget everything that happened that day, but my only flaw is that I have a very good memory, and I can never forget what I should forget... Later I He left the place where he had lived for decades and wandered around the five realms."
"We walked and we got here. ... But there will be a day when you are too old to walk, when you see snowflakes flying all over the sky in the snowy evening, you will think of life. A name, a song... At that moment, you will know that there is only one person you love most..."
"The glass of wine you drank was what I brewed that day. ... Later I wanted to brew it again and tried many methods, but found that I could no longer produce the taste of that kind of wine... Drink Once you finish the wine in the gourd, there will be no more wine in the world!"
The man in gray robe looked a little depressed. He raised his wine glass to signal to Li Yi, then gently put it to his lips, tasting it slowly like Li Ye did before.
It doesn't look like drinking, it feels like tasting tea, it feels more like saying goodbye to your beloved lover...
Li Ye's heart was filled with shock. He remembered the scene when Nalan Yu drank with Hua Tianxia in Chamanlou.
I remembered what Nalan Yu said, as if he was a replica of the man in gray robe in front of me...
Seeing Li Ye in a daze, the man in gray robe grinned and laughed at himself: "I didn't expect that I would meet a close friend who doesn't know how to drink... Hahaha! If we meet again in the future, I will teach you how to brew a vat of wine that belongs only to you."
After saying these words, the man in gray robe gently put down the wine glass and put away the wine gourd.
He stood up, looked at Li Ye's obsessed look, threw his head back and laughed a few times, turned around and walked out of the inn...
Li Ye, who was confused, murmured: "Not long ago, there was a person. She told me that there is a kind of wine called "Drunk Life, Dreams and Death". After drinking it, it can make you forget everything you have done before. She said, the greatest thing about people is The trouble is that my memory is too good. If I could forget everything and every day would be a new beginning, how happy would that be?"
"Of course I didn't believe it, so I bought two jars from her. I didn't have any gold coins in my hand at the time, so I promised to owe it first. However, after I drank from that jar, I really forgot everything. From then on, my heart , always engraved with a woman’s name…”
Aftertaste the strong liquor in your mouth, there is a vague fragrance of countless flowers, and a hint of astringent resentment.
Li Ye sighed softly and said to himself: "It turns out that this is the 'Drunken Life, Dream and Death' that Brother Nalan gave me. It turns out that this man in gray robe is the alcoholic senior..."
Last time at Huamanlou, he drank too much and got drunk after just two drinks. This time, he could finally savor the taste of the wine slowly.
While thinking about Nalan Yu's story, he recalled what the man in gray robe had just said to him.
He looked up at the window and said softly: "I don't know if you are staying in Fengyun City at this time, or if you have returned to Phoenix Mountain..."
Looking at the amber wine in the cup, Li Ye picked it up and put it to his lips, sipping it gently like tea.
"...One night I suddenly wanted to drink, but I ended up drinking half a bottle of drunkenness. I suddenly realized that in fact, drunkenness was just a joke."
"The more you wonder if you have forgotten someone, the clearer you will remember it. I once heard someone say that when you can no longer have someone, the only thing you can do is to make yourself not forget."
He was so worried that he drank all the drunkenness in the cup, looked at the teapot on the table, and shook his head with a wry smile.
He said to himself: "After drinking this drunken dream, I no longer have the mood to taste the taste of Qingcheng spring tea."
He glanced at the waiter at the counter, stretched out his hand to touch his aching arm, sighed softly, got up and walked upstairs to the inn.
Pushing open the door, the gentleman was already sitting at the table. He looked at Li Ye, who was blushing, frowned, and said, "It's getting late. Call your wife and we'll go downstairs for dinner."
Li Ye looked up at his husband, not knowing what to say, and after a while he murmured: "Sir, I don't have any taste. I want to sleep for a while, so I won't have dinner. You can go eat with my wife and Mu Mu."
Without taking off his coat, he lay sideways on the bed and slowly closed his eyes.
The husband smelled the alcohol smell all over Li Ye, frowned, and said to himself: "That's good, who made you drink again?" Seeing that Li Ye didn't react on the bed, the husband didn't call him again. , but stood up and opened the door...
Li Ye, who was too drunk, fell into a daze after lying on the bed for a while. He had no idea that his husband frowned and pushed the door open. Half asleep, he muttered softly:
I remember when I was young,
You love to chat and I love to laugh.
Once we were side by side under the tree
The wind is in the treetops and the birds are chirping
I fell asleep somehow
How much do you know about flowers falling in dreams?
When I was drunk, I didn't know where I was, and I only regarded the Western Region as the Eastern Region. As he imagined a bright future with the young lady from Phoenix Mountain, the possibility of which was almost zero, two lines of tears quietly slipped from the corner of his eyes while he was half asleep and half drunk...
...
Li Hongxiu and Mu Mu were so hungry that they ran downstairs to the inn to order food.
Looking at the frowning gentleman walking downstairs, Li Hong's sleeves froze and he said: "Husband, where has that boy Li Ye gone? Why didn't you ask him to come down and have dinner with him? He was frightened today and there was something wrong with him. Injured."
Mumu stared at the gentleman who came down with his round eyes.
The gentleman looked at the two people sitting at the table waiting for him, put away his frown, and said calmly: "He said he didn't want to eat and fell asleep on the bed."
"He ran for a long time today, fought with people and escaped death. He consumed so much energy. How could he not want to eat?" Li Hongxiu also frowned.
Mu Mu pushed the chair behind her, looked at Li Hongxiu and said, "Master, please wait a moment. I will go up and pull my brother down."
The husband glanced at Mu Mu and said, "Don't go. He's already drunk. You can't wake him up."
Mu Mu was dumbfounded, looked at Li Hongxiu and said, "Master, haven't you eaten yet? How about brother drink some wine? I remember he doesn't have the peach blossom cake in his bag, where did he get the wine?"
Li Hongxiu also looked at Mr. with a confused expression.
When the husband saw the two of them, he waved his hands and said, "Don't look at me, you two. He took a shower and changed clothes and then went downstairs. When he came back, he smelled of alcohol. Before I could ask him, he fell down. Asleep in bed.”
"This little guy is becoming more and more incomprehensible to him. He was so seriously injured and instead of just resting upstairs, he actually ran downstairs to get a drink."
Li Hongxiu said quietly.
Just as the waiter was placing the food on the table, the gentleman looked at him and asked: "Excuse me, the boy who came with me, did you buy wine in the store just now?"
The waiter put down the food and said with a smile: "Just now, the young gentleman came downstairs to order a pot of spring tea, and while he was drinking it, a man in gray robe about fifty years old came... Later, the old man in gray robe gave the young man The gentleman poured two glasses of wine, drank it and left..."
The gentleman was startled for a moment and said, "Is that man in gray robe a customer of the store?"
The guy replied, "No, he was just passing by."
The husband nodded, waved and said, "Thank you."
